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[Episode 19]
The account books were done well.
As for the prices...
Have them all doubled.
The expenses at Novoland Inn are already the highest in Tian Qi City.
Since the customers are all here for their own purposes
and they don't care much for money
why would you worry for them?
Prince De, you're right.
You may go.
Yes.
Shouldn't Prince De bow to me?
Shouldn't Prince He Ge give it a bit more time?
When the day comes, I'll greet you in the highest respect.
You're smart.
Your Highness.
Your Highness will need goldlings to accomplish great things.
You can use this to retrieve money in any of my pawn shops.
It will just appear as my expenses.
No one would know that it's actually Your Highness.
What is it that you want?
I'm a merchant.
As a merchant... it's definitely the benefits that I am after.
Is it that simple?
As far as I know...
Wan Prefecture's Chamber of Commerce is much wealthier than the royal court.
Would anyone think that there are too many goldlings to make?
Prince He Ge, look at me.
I'm still very young.
If I began feeding off my forefather's savings
I'd find that quite inappropriate.
I will also have to plan for the long term.
Frankly speaking, it isn't as if I haven't done some research.
Among all of His Majesty's sons
you're the only one who knows best to seek assistance from all
for one man's task.
It won't cost me anything to help you.
You're so smart.
Don't you want to take that position for yourself?
I do.
Looking down at the world from the throne...
Producing clouds with one turn of the hand and rain with another.
That's the sweet dream of every zealous man.
Moreover, His Majesty is in poor health
and the discipline of the royal court is failing.
Natural disasters are everywhere.
This is a great opportunity.
However, the difficulty lies in...
I'm a merchant.
I'm too fond of calculating costs.
I don't mind spending some goldlings.
As for gambling away my life...
I can't bear to do so.
With simply that alone, I'm no match for Your Highness.
It's been my habit to go all in against the odds.
That's why we make a good team.
Do you have the other item that I told you to prepare?
How would I dare to take Your Highness's order lightly?
It's just a drawing of it.
The Sovereign Seal has been lost since the founding of the Duan Empire.
No one knows what it really looks like.
Only when the former emperor passes on the throne to the next
will he have to describe the appearance of the seal.
The Wise will only be able to forge one exquisite in details
if they have a design.
This was drawn according to my assumption
after researching the former dynasty's confidential information.
Certainly, if you wish for no one to identify it as forged
you'll have to wait for Mister Mo to send some news back.
Mister Mo?
Mister Mo is also an old acquaintance of mine.
When will he return?
I don't know either.
Your Highness, do you know that Emperor Taizu had made an oath
when the Great Duan Empire was first founded?
Whoever in the Muru family finds the Sovereign Seal
can become the emperor of the Duan Empire.
That was hundreds of years ago.
Who would still acknowledge that oath?
As long as it's an ancestral code, it will be acknowledged.
I won't be able to wait.
Get the seal forged with this design.
Your Highness, aren't you worried that His Majesty might expose you?
His Majesty can no longer speak.
Even if he notices that it's forged, he can't tell anyone.
He really can't even utter a word?
He's been like that for some time.
The palace is keeping it a secret.
Annoyingly, that Muru Shuo has been acting as the regent.
Our actions are hence restricted.
Moreover, he adopts the ancestral code.
Once His Majesty passes away...
Muyun Han will become the emperor according to seniority.
Therefore, I have to act fast.
We'll do as Your Highness wishes.
[Qing Yu Ridge]
How many of Long Yuan Chamber's collections can you remember?
Long Yuan Chamber has preserved all the knowledge and records
since Novoland was first created.
I might have once been the Coordinator of Long Yuan Chamber
transcribed the classics for 30 years
traveled throughout Novoland to collect various kinds of knowledge for 20 years
and imparted knowledge to the March Moon Sect, Sky Warriors
Tian Luo Assassins, the king of the Soarers
and the Wise for 30 years until I was imprisoned by you.
What I can remember is no more than one fraction of what I experienced.
If you'd have told us sooner where the real entrance to Long Yuan Chamber was
we wouldn't have made it so hard for you.
Long Yuan Chamber only existed so as to impart
true knowledge to the later generations and record the truth in history.
However the dynasties might change in Novoland.
The later generations can learn of what their predecessors went through
so that the lives we once had will not be in vain.
Our descendants can then inherit it and pass it on.
Therefore, no sects or organizations are allowed to make use of it.
If you're allowed to select whatever knowledge you want
and edit historical facts
what truth is left in this world then?
Can you recall the origin of the Charmer in that glass bead?
Where does she come from?
Why would she appear?
You've been pestering me for days.
Must you know the answers to these questions?
Why do you insist on not answering me?
It's because you're from the March Moon Sect!
Since Long Yuan Chamber manages only the records
you should stay out of other matters.
Novoland will soon be hurled into chaos.
March Moon Sect is only expediting it.
Do you think that you can stop the replacement of the emperor
just by keeping confidential information a secret?
How pedantic.
If only this were as simple as the alternating of emperors.
Mentor. Mister Mo.
Have some tea.
- Qi Hua. - Mentor.
Although our lives are precious
it's still nothing compared to the secret of that Charmer.
If the secret is leaked, hundreds of generations of efforts
that Long Yuan Chamber has put in shall go to waste
and everything about Novoland shall exist no more!
Mentor, I understand.
I shall obey you.
Mister Mo, have some tea as well.
Mentor!
What are you doing?
What are you trying to do?
You're old.
You'll need someone to transcribe everything that you know.
You wouldn't use anyone that we assigned you.
But you trusted only him.
The child who was captured along with you.
Don't hurt him!
Do you think that I can't make you talk if you're dead?
You might know how to conduct Soul Summoning
but it will hurl its power back at you!
So what if it does?
The power will be hurled back at me?
Hurled back at me?
It doesn't matter.
Hurled back at me?
Speak!
Speak now!
That Charmer...
She seals the God of Desolation's fury within her heart!
Once that is released...
Do you really wish to see me so badly?
Your Highness.
It's chilly out here.
Why don't you go inside?
You haven't eaten for days.
Have a bit to eat, at least.
Your Highness?
Have some.
Prince Sheng!
What are you so entranced by?
You have to treat yourself so poorly?
What is a bowl made of?
It's shaped from clay.
Then it's heated in a kiln.
What's in the clay?
What else is there?
Isn't it just dirt?
It all burns to ashes in the air.
That means that the visible bowl is actually made of invisible ashes.
Your Highness, you should go to bed now.
You're already making no sense.
I've got it.
I've figured it out.
Give it to me!
If you don't go to bed now, I'll never return this glass bead to you!
Serve another portion.
Yes.
This is such a harmful object.
My mentor specializes in occultism.
He saw this glass bead and said that it was inauspicious.
If Muyun Sheng keeps it, it will kill him sooner of later.
You might as well let me take it and have it destroyed.
It will save his life.
Who is it?
It's me, Lan Yu'er.
Prince De.
What are you doing?
- Let go of-- - Lower your voice.
Lower your voice.
Forgive me for alarming you.
If anyone overhears that you're visiting me at night
it won't be good for your reputation.
I'm sorry.
I've misunderstood you.
Did I hurt you just now?
It's fine.
If you're still upset about it, you can hit me a few more times.
You're here to--
You're visiting me late at night to hand me the pouch I gave you?
No... that's not what I mean.
It's this.
Take this.
Do you have another to replace it?
Pan Xi?
It's me.
Pan Xi!
Lan Yu'er!
Your Highness, I'll go and get her now.
Your Highness.
You must be looking for this.
I've held on to it for you.
All you do every day is look for this glass bead.
The empress hasn't summoned you to visit His Majesty in the palace for some time.
Don't you find it strange?
It's all right.
Once I've learned well, my father will recover.
Your Highness.
I'll fetch you water to freshen up.
All right.
Pin Xian?
Why don't you stay with me from now on?
No.
I have everything that Muyun Sheng has.
I also have what he doesn't.
I'm so much smarter than he is.
But I never want to ever see you again.
Then you won't get to see anyone.
There wasn't any magical power in this world.
There are only different ways to look at things in one's mind.
When you're no longer confused by the appearance of such things
you'll discover the true secret of this world.
I understand it now.
Pan Xi, I've figured it out.
Everything in this world can be seen as formed from particles.
They can be so small that they aren't visible.
But it doesn't mean that they don't have a force.
These particles are always moving.
Even if we see trees, plants, and flowers that are immobile
as well as those tables and chairs
they remain still because of the movement in the particles.
Now that I look at this flower again...
it's different.
But I'm still confused.
If I can see them...
does that mean I can maneuver the force of these particles?
In between these particles...
what else do I still need to do?
Sheng... Prince Sheng...
The astrolabe...
- The astrolabe... - Mentor!
Get lost!
The astrolabe...
The astrolabe! The astrolabe...
This is impossible...
The astrolabe of Royal Divination Sect...
It's never stop operating for the past 1,200 years.
It can't possibly have stopped...
It can't possibly have stopped!
Mentor!
- Mentor! - Mentor!
Look.
You still have to summon me out.
Muyun Sheng, wake up!
- What did you say? - Wake up now.
This isn't you!
Who am I, then?
You're hurt?
Why are you hurt?
Lan Yu'er! Step aside!
Be careful.
Prince Sheng!
Your Highness!
Your Highness, it's because of me.
Pan Xi...
I can't allow anyone to hurt you.
Pan Xi...
I...
I know who you are.
[Danyao Clan, Han Prefecture]
Su He!
Su He, quickly!
What is it, Granny?
The Demon Master has opened his eyes.
Han Prefecture shall turn into a dark land in his hands.
There will be no lush pastures, running cattle or sheep
mothers' toasted bread, or smiling faces of children.
[Danyao Clan's A-Mu] Only your songs of prayer
will summon sunlight for us.
Granny, what should I do?
You shall become the greatest shaman of Han Prefecture.
A seal in your mind conceals the secret of Han Prefecture's downfall.
Only the Iron Wielder's Giant Ax can break your seal.
Go quickly.
Find Shuofeng He Ye quickly.
[Subterranean City]
Our opportunity has finally come.
Where are the fireworks that Mister Long left me?
We'll need to invite him back.
Yes.
What beautiful fireworks.
These must be new designs.
I've never seen these in the past.
They aren't new.
They aren't new at all.
They must date back almost 400 years.
You know so much about fireworks?
Su Zhen...
It's my greatest fortune to have spent my life with you.
You're acting all romantic like the others when there are fireworks.
Don't you know how rough you look?
Prince De.
Come in.
Prince De.
It's still...
not quite the taste you like?
Put them away.
I've had a bit of everything.
It's enough.
The chef of Qian De Restaurant will be upset to hear that.
The ingredients in Tian Qi City came from everywhere.
There's no taste of the local products.
There are also too many techniques used in the cooking.
It only makes the mistakes even more obvious.
There's such little effort made.
It's good enough to just ease my hunger.
Is the transcription of the book on occultism interesting?
Should I get the antique bookstore at the flower market
to collect more for you?
This?
Forget it.
It's all just nonsense.
But when I'm tired from going through the account books
I can have it as a casual read.
If you're done tidying up, you may leave.
Yes.
Are you sick of living?
There are variations of magical powers.
How could it be properly explained by such marketplace books?
You've returned?
You've been away for so long.
I already have so much done.
I hope that you haven't been sleeping on the job.
I only got one matter done.
But it is definitely more important than everything you've done.
I have Muyun Sheng's glass bead.
You said that the lady in the bead is the key to winning the world.
How should we use it?
Return it to Muyun Sheng.
You only managed to suppress her with the Sky Knocker's power.
You'd only destroy her. You can't manipulate her.
Do you know what I'd do...
with something that I could not have?
I'd destroy--
If you really do so...
I'll kill you first.
Are you assisting me or Muyun Sheng?
Muyun Sheng!
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